Chapter 72: Chapter 72: No Escape!
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The map wasn’t just a cheat that made it easier for him to score points and capture Blood Demons; in urban combat like this, it could have an incredible ancillary effect!
Some at the command center would even describe it as—it’s like having a God’s eye view!
The soldiers fighting on the front lines could feel it too, not just the command center.
Though they hadn’t reached a point where they could sync and pinpoint every Blood Demon’s location, once more than a hundred Blood Demons gathered and moved, they would know immediately!
And they were always one step ahead of the Blood Demons!
From the start of the battle, they had been continuously cornering and repelling the Blood Demons; never once had they been surrounded.
Even the Blood Demon Mother had become aware of this point.
However, in the eyes of the Blood Demon Mother, this scenario was more a result of the omnipresent surveillance throughout the entire city!
“They have definitely added a lot of hidden surveillance!” Shadow King said in an extremely gloomy mood.
The human Legion’s defense line in the city had not only surprised it but even filled it with fear!
More crucially, its children had hardly any decent weapons!
Once exposed, they were doomed to be targeted by concentrated fire, and once caught in the thick of it, even if they defended with all their might, they couldn’t protect their weak points!
Not to mention those heavy weapons.
For these Level 1 Blood Demons, the penetrating power of machine guns was simply irresistible!
Fortunately, they still held the initiative, and in Shadow King’s perception, more and more children were continuously rushing into the core area.
—A considerably large oil station!
Even though humans were also converging here, their speed was still a notch faster.
“Six thousand is enough,” Shadow King said tightly clenching his fist, his expression unspeakably ferocious, “Take down the oil, and it’s like having weapons!”
Even if it was just basic incendiaries, it could still make this city understand what fear truly was.
Meanwhile, at this oil station—a key attack point for the Blood Demons—quite a few people had already gathered.
Two of Shen Hao’s Chosen Ones had also arrived.
It was Yang Jun and Qiuyue.
They stood within the defensive line, watching the Blood Demons that kept converging but merely hid in various buildings without eagerly attacking, naturally aware of the Blood Demons’ objective.
Nothing more than to amass a sufficient number of progeny, then surge forward all at once.
“The Matrix behind them lacks command ability,” Yang Jun said, holding a somewhat exaggerated weapon, his face seriously worried, “But even so, Blood Demons under command and those without are two different matters.”
He had to admit, if the team leader were not here today, they would need to pay a certain price to hold this oil station.
After all, their forces were limited, and in a city with many ordinary civilians, many heavy weapons were unusable.
Moreover, once the Blood Demons managed to parasitize a soldier amidst the chaos and successfully infiltrated, the situation would become even more troublesome.
Many foreign battlefields had fallen exactly because of this.
In urban combat, the Blood Demons truly had an advantage.
“Don’t just stand here watching; the more we can kill, the better,” Yang Jun turned his head and said to Gu Qiuyue, and then leaped out of the defense line, striding toward a gathering point of the Blood Demons.
“Wait, this place isn’t…”
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Qiuyue seemed to remember something and hurriedly shouted.
“It’s okay, let him go,” the voice of Dong Gong came through the command channel, “Qiuyue, you go as well, to prevent the Blood Demon Mother from suspecting anything.”
The Blood Demons were indeed intentionally let in for the team leader’s preparation, but if they didn’t engage in a proper battle, it wouldn’t be good if the Matrix became suspicious.
After all, the other gas stations that were being attacked all had strong Chosen Ones defending them; it would not make sense if the biggest one lacked defense.
“Alright,” Gu Qiuyue understood as well. She didn’t follow Yang Jun but instead aimed for another area where Blood Demons were converging and took a stance as if gathering energy.
Boom——!
A huge Shock Wave hit the ground, propelling her up high like a cannonball!
It was the Blue Ability, Shock Wave!
In the past few days of combat, Gu Qiuyue’s experience and strength had grown significantly. Coupled with a blue ability and the Boxer’s Talent, she was even starting to reach the top tier within the fighting quintet.
Especially with the enhancement from the blue ability.
And how well it paired with the Boxer Talent.
Facing the Blood Demons that knew they couldn’t escape and were viciously wielding various blood weapons, Gu Qiuyue simply concentrated the Shock Wave in her fist and unleashed her punch. The air itself turned into a visible fist imprint, and with a muffled thud, the entire neck of the Blood Demon, along with its head, exploded!
Indeed, combining the close-combat Talent of a Boxer with the Shock Wave allowed her to develop a powerful long-range method of combat!
With the addition of the black boxing gloves on her hands, which were specially selected by Shen Hao to increase attack speed, her fists now swung so fast that they created countless afterimages, the meteor-like punch imprints continually exploding forth. It turned her into a mobile artillery unit, with no Blood Demon able to get close to her.
The style of fighting was extremely wild.
Even she herself had fully adapted to the gruesome scenes of exploding blood and mangled flesh.
“Six thousand isn’t enough!” the Shadow King gritted his teeth wretchedly through the perspective of its child entities, “We need nearly eight thousand! And excellent children as well!”
Although it had let most of its offspring join the operation, it still retained some reserves.
Not many Level 4 Blood Demons had been activated.
Under the current conditions in this country, cultivating a Level 4 Blood Demon was not easy. Only places like hospitals, funeral homes, or remote villages provided the right conditions. Therefore, it had kept all its Level 4 Blood Demons in reserve, still dormant.
These Level 4 Blood Demons were also one of its guarantees for escaping from this country!
But now, it had no choice but to deploy them.
In this country, apart from the unimaginably powerful Shen Hao, other strong Chosen Ones existed!
If push came to shove—it would make a move personally!
Meanwhile, Shen Hao had noticed the sudden shift in the Blood Demons on the map.
“Of the remaining fourteen stationary Blood Demons, six have started moving,” he said over the channel, “heading towards the largest gas station with great speed.”
“It seems that the Analysis Department’s deduction is correct,” Dong Gong said, “These are all high-level Blood Demons.”
“Hmm.”
Shen Hao then turned his attention to the remaining Blood Demons that were still motionless.
Clearly, the Blood Demon Mother was very likely one of them.
With the range narrowed down this much, unless the Matrix had the ability to escape dozens of kilometers in an instant, there would be no escape!